The Junior League of Napa-Sonoma sent out that Tweet at a little after 1:30 p.m. PDT on August 17.
Within minutes, retweets started coming in from all over The Association. The answers to that question tell us a lot about today’s League – and today’s League members.
Below we’ve captured the Twitter thread in its entirety just for our readers.

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Three months after the devastating tornado that hit Joplin, MO in May, survivors are still picking up the pieces and putting them back together. But life goes on, and one important facet of life in any town is the first day of school. And even though six of Joplin’s 18 public schools were wrecked in the storm, and three other schools need to undergo major repairs, school opened on schedule this year.
Because there isn’t a Junior League in Joplin, the Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri stepped in to help …

Like many community-focused nonprofit organizations, many Junior Leagues around the country offer graduating seniors a chance to apply for a merit-based scholarship. While students typically need high academic credentials to qualify, one other thing makes a successful candidate stand out: a commitment to hands-on, focused community service. We call it “voluntarism.”
For example, the Junior League of Morristown has awarded 112 scholarships totaling over $155,000 since starting its Voluntarism Scholarships in 1986 as a gift to the community as part of JLM’s 50th anniversary celebration. Scholarships are awarded based on the …

While back-to-school backpack programs remain one of the most popular Junior League programs, the Junior League of Bryan-College Station’s Stuff the Bus initiative creates a new wrinkle: fund-raising by flash mob.
JLBCS’ signature project – which aims to provide school supplies to over 16,000 students in Bryan-College Station – used the very latest in social media attention-getting tools this year with a community call to dance in public in front of Bryan’s Brazos Center.
You can see the results below, or here, in KBTX TV’s live coverage of the nearly 200 flash …

One of this year’s hottest summer movies looks to be The Help, the entertaining screen version of the best-seller of the same name. Because The Junior League—or at least a fictionalized version of the Junior League of Jackson, Mississippi—plays a small but important role in the plot, we wanted to correct a misperception the movie may leave you with: the importance of bridge as an important League function in the early 1960s.
Why? Because the movie’s League characters seem to get together largely for the purpose of playing cards. That’s not …

Junior Leagues are usually focused on issues and problems in their own communities. But what can we do to make a difference when the issue we want to address goes beyond our community’s borders?
A joint action by the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee (CalSPAC), which represents more than 11,000 members of 16 Junior Leagues across California (including the Junior League of Los Angeles), and the Junior League of Los Angeles (JLLA) provides a useful model.
Kelly Abraham Martinez was a young mother who took her own life in …

As families begin to think about back-to-school shopping, some naturally have anxiety – economic anxiety. It’s no secret that the economy is still in a rough patch. But for families already living on the edge, shopping for school supplies can also mean skipping a utility payment.
Which is why one of the most successful community initiatives for many Junior Leagues is the annual backpack event. It goes by different names. Book Bag Project. Back-to-School Fair.  League Locker. Stuff the Bus. But the goal is the same: to provide needy kids with …